CaptionX Control

This control allows you to place icons that work like command buttons in a window's title bar to the right of the standard buttons Minimize, Maximize and Close. The component also provides you with the ability to draw at the title area so you can place here formatted text or even graphics. You can see a window's caption modified with the CaptionX control at the following screenshot:

As you can see CaptionX extends the functionality and view of a window's caption area, and the name CaptionX means "Caption eXtender".

CaptionX Capabilities

This component supports all types of VB windows - sizable, dialog or tool windows (the BorderStyle property in VB) and takes into account the visibility of the Minimize, Maximize and What's This buttons; it can be used in MDI parent and child windows; it even supports Windows XP styled borders of windows!

Each caption icon can have its own tooltip that displays tip text and optionally title and icon; you can also adjust such common tooltips parameters as style (balloon or standard rectangular), visible and delay time.

A window's caption text can be drawn by CaptionX or by the developer (this feature is also known as custom drawing); in the last case you can draw your own formatted text using different colors and fonts or even place pictures in window caption.

CaptionX was designed specially for Visual Basic 6 forms as an ActiveX control invisible at run-time. It is based on intercepting window nonclient area messages of VB forms package and cannot be used with other types of forms which support ActiveX controls (.NET Windows Forms, UserForms in VBA in MS Word and Excel and so on).

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